Execution Of Michael Brown. 2014. TALWST miniature sculpture

TALWST miniature sculpture
Trinidad born, now Canadian mixed media artist Talwst, has created miniature dioramas in ring boxes. Fine jewelry boxes serve as the basis for small scenes filled with almost microscopic human figures. According to the artist, the idea for this series came about when a street vendor in Paris gave him an old box from the ring and told him: “I would love to see what you can do with it.” Antique ring boxes, which he uses, as well as fine details in tiny dioramas, help the viewer pay attention to the story; “I want the viewer to open the box, and feel that he is in another world.”
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Trumpeter bike. Metal art by Alisa Didkovskaya-Petrosyuk

Metal art by Alisa Didkovskaya-Petrosyuk – sculptures performed in non-traditional techniques. The artist combines metal of different colors with colored glass, stone and wood. Alisa was born in the Ukrainian city of Berdichev. Her parents greatly encouraged her childhood classes of modeling and drawing. And her first teacher was her father – professional artist. Under his leadership during her school years, Alisa tried to work with the material which seemed more appropriate for men. The first metal objects made by Alisa Didkovskaya-Petrosyuk were small figurines, plaques with enamel.
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Crocodile. Veronika Richterova plastic bottle art

Veronika Richterova plastic bottle art – Flower compositions, various plants, mushrooms in the forest, crocodiles, frogs and penguins in their natural habitat. PET bottles have long been the material for various craft projects. Artist from the Czech Republic Veronika Richterova (born 1964) has devoted herself to systematically artistic work with recycled bottles. She has been creating installation and original sculptures for 11 years, and has used thousands of bottles for hundreds of art objects since 2004. The easily malleable PET (plastic bottle) has proved to be an excellent material for fulfilling her artistic intentions. The artist’s aim is to capture the fundamental principle of the human desire for creative recycling. And it is not in the least important whether the work in question is purely functional, or is simply a decorative object.
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Cat resting on a chocolate sofa. Chocolate Room by Elena Kliment

Chocolate Room by Elena Kliment
On February 13, in the interior and delicatessen center mc2, located on the 68a Krasta street, Riga, took place an event for lovers of the sweet life. For the first time in Latvian capital appeared a Chocolate room. Riga joined those few cities with the chocolate rooms built in life size. The area of the chocolate room is 20 square meters, according to the media reports. The room perfectly combines delicacies and the interior, presented as the real room with designer furniture in natural size. The author of Chocolate Room – famous Belarusian chocolate sculptor Elena Kliment. By the way, for creation she used chocolate produced in different parts of the world: Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, and New Zealand.
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Green Chameleon created from various metal parts. Steampunk sculpture by Lithuanian steampunk artist Arturas Tamasauskas

Lithuanian steampunk artist Arturas Tamasauskas
Traditionally, steampunk combines metal, steam technology and the aesthetics of Victorian times. And the main raw materials for sculptures – bolts, nuts, etc., taken from dumps and flea markets. For many, it’s just rubbish, and any broken auto parts sometimes come in handy for a talented and creative master. One of these artists is Arturas Tamasauskas, who creates stunning figures of animals, birds and cars, and even submarines.
The main material can by anything from metal parts to watch mechanisms. According to Tamasauskas, his favorite animals are birds, because they are “very strange mechanisms.” It seems that he can see the mechanisms everywhere. Just look at one of his creations – Green Chameleon, which is truly a masterpiece of steampunk art (the above picture).
Noteworthy, such works of art can be a beautiful and unique decoration for home interior.
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Blue bird. Roman Khalilov Surrealistic ceramic art

Roman Khalilov Surrealistic ceramic art
Talented artist Roman Khalilov (born 28 October 1980 in Zaporozhye, Ukraine) is the author of fabulous gallery of ceramic sculptures. Created by him animals and people as if filled with mystery of ancient pottery of lost civilizations. Indeed, pottery has been known since ancient times, and is the first man made material. These colorful figurines of animals, fish, folk characters passed through the prism of the author’s imagination. This makes them original and dream provoking. Roman Khalilov’s clay figurines and panels – shaped, decorated with painting, carving, and hardened by fire, have become the real piece of art. Khalilov exhibited his surrealistic clay works in Ukraine and abroad – Germany, Italy, Greeece, and Russia. The artist is currently working in the studio Art pottery KERAMUS in Ukraine.
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Carol Eckert coiling art

Carol Eckert coiling art – fiber sculptures of animals that are mythology symbols: snakes as symbols of evil, storks or cranes as signs of good fortune. Animal symbolism appeals to her, through the coiled fiber process she creates stories, legends of great floods, tales of quests and journeys, parables of good and evil. “Mythology and art have been intertwined for as long as there have been humans on earth, and my work often makes references to art history”, says Carol Eckert.
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